Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Website Title Affects the Traffic on Your Site

By Ricardo d Argence


The importance of their website title is something that countless people are unaware of. When you search around on the Internet, you look for a title that catches your eye. Therefore, when you make your own website, make sure you have an eye-catching title.

The title is what brings visitors to your site and indicates to them exactly what you offer. The title should be optimized for search engines, as it will increase your rank and maximize your position in searches. You need to take time and consider the title in all its entirety. Whilst ensuring that the headline informs possible customers about your services it is important t make it Web friendly so that it can be picked up by search engines.

You don't make your website title just the name of your company because that will not tell people what you can offer them or entice them to clicking on your website. Take for instance if you're looking for discounted pet food and you come across a site called Joe's pet shop, chances are you won't click on that website. You'll click on a website that says in the name, discountedpetfoods as it tells you exactly the product are looking for is what they carry.

When picking a name for your website,it should imply what your selling or what services you offer. Keywords are the words that are used in when someone does a search with a search engine. For example, if you were performing a search for discounted dog food you wouldn't type in Joe's pet shop. A critical indication of that would happen to be, reduced priced dog food.

Your title should also have keywords towards the beginning, so search engines will rank it better. Some people even consider putting in the main keyword twice. That can be a little tricky to do as you don't want to sound redundant but it is possible to do it. You can promote your dog food as offering the best discount on the Web. When each key word is used more than once it becomes repetitious, and sounds more like a statement.

To ensure your prospects click on your link make your title as persuasive as possible. The less persuasive your title is the less traffic you will have. It is important to say as much as possible, in very little space. Search engines generally have a limit on the length of the title that shows in their search engine results. You need to get as much information into the ad as possible, cut to the chase ASAP.

Try to keep your secondary keywords out of your title. These can be used on your main page with ease so save your title for what is really important. Try to keep the website title short but to the point. You don't want to over stuff it with repeated keywords, making is sound plumped up and desperate.

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